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Finding The Guilty One: Media Sensationalism, Defendant’s Performance, and Jury Equity
No full textLisa Ballantyne’s debut novel The Guilty One (2012) “tackles the ambi- tious, gritty, and emotive subject of child-on-child murder through a consuming psychological lens.”1 Starting from a cultural analysis that considers post-Bulger England’s jurisprudence in relation to children who kill, this paper investigates on how the jury’s decision-making process is influenced by factors that intervene in the trial phases. Pre-trial media sensationalism and during-trial child defen- dant’s performance may affect the jury’s vision of the case, and may alter the perspective from which the case is looked at. Three main factors will be taken into account: media sensationalism, the defendant’s performance at trial, and the possibility of the jury to bypass the letter of the Law in the name of equity, all of which partake in the jury’s decision-making process, potentially determining the final verdict
Intermodal Exchanges in the Land of Oz
No full textThe article explores the relationships among The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, its 1939 film version, and the various other works based on and associated with it. In this work, the long-running stage musical Wicked is identified as an innovative and influential take on Baum’s story
Voice and Identity in the Fairy Tale: Emma Donoghue's Kissing the Witch
No full textThis paper aims at analysing the relationship between voice and identity in Donoghue’s collection of revised fairy tales Kissing the Witch. Such analysis will focus on the connections between the construction of identity, in which the fairy tale plays a fundamental role, and the narratological process. This work will consider firstly the difficulties encountered by a non-fictional telling of the self, when dealing with narrative elements which come from the voice of the Other, and the internalisation of the Other’s voice in the construction of self identity, taking into account the legal implications that the concepts of voice and identity, and voice as identity, entail. The analysis moves onto Donoghue’s fairy tales as an example of such relationship, which is made clear by the intertextual connections between the thirteen tales of the collection itself. Donoghue uses the female voice for the construction, development, affirmation and even nihilation of her protagonists’ identities
The Taste of the Other: Relationships of Food in Leavitt's ‘While England Sleeps‘
No full textThe article explores the shaping of personal as well as collective identities in Leavitt's novel While England Sleeps. The issues at stake are several and deal with politics, social class, sexuality, health, ethics, legality and morals. In depicting this process of identity formation, Leavitt draws strict connections between food and relationships, contributing to a more holistic understanding of the world, by an active engagement of all five senses
Into the Woods of Wicked Wonderland. Musicals Revise Fairy Tales
No full textThis work explores the dynamics of the metamorphosis that the classical fairy tales have undergone throughout the centuries. Such analysis is conducted from a literary and from a memetic point of view, through an investigation that aims at outlining the role of the fairy tale within the relationship between man’s urge for self-narration and the performance of such urge. It specifically focusses on the evolutionary process that links the Grimms’ collection, Carroll’s Alice books, Baum’s ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’, and Maguire’s ‘Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West’ to the musicals that stem from them: Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Into the Woods’, Stephen Schwartz’s Wicked, and Frank Wildhorn’s ‘Wonderland’. By taking into account the intertextual, intermodal, and interpersonal exchanges enabled by these three revisions, the book explores the journey of the Self and its everlasting search for an answer to the question that the Caterpillar asks Alice: “Who are you?
Law and Justice on the Small Screen
No full textRecensione dell'opera Law and Justice on the Small Screen
The Postmodern Revision of the Fairy Tale in Musicals: Into the Woods, Wicked, Wonderland
No full textNonostante le fiabe classiche abbiano subìto incessanti trasformazioni nel corso dei secoli, esse hanno dimostrato di essere in grado di mantenere intatti i loro caratteri distintivi, e sono sopravvissute a macroscopici cambiamenti storico-sociali grazie alla loro abilità di rinnovarsi e di adattarsi ai nuovi contesti. In particolare, durante il periodo postmoderno, la revisione della fiaba ha dato origine a una serie di rivisitazioni che ne hanno sovvertito la struttura narrativa canonica, creando versioni che ne riesaminano i τόποι carartteristici.
Il presente lavoro analizza le dinamiche di questa metamorfosi dal punto di vista letterario e da quello memetico, attraverso una ricerca che mira a descrivere il ruolo assunto dalla fiaba all’interno del rapporto tra l’esigenza umana di auto-narrarsi, e la performance di tale esigenza. Partendo dalle fiabe classiche, questa ricerca prende in considerazione opere letterarie dall’epoca vittoriana a quella contemporanea, esaminando il modo in cui queste hanno contribuito ad una nuova concezione della narrativa fiabesca. In particolar modo, l’analisi della raccolta dei fratelli Grimm, dei romanzi di Alice, scritti da Lewis Carroll, de Il Mago di Oz di L. Frank Baum, e di Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West di Gregory Maguire costituisce una solida base per lo studio condotto sui tre musical da queste derivati, ovvero Into the Woods di Stephen Sondheim, Wicked di Stephen Schwartz, e infine Wonderland di Frank Wildhorn, che mettono in scena tre versioni postmoderne delle fiabe classiche, evidenziando la correlazione tra la fiaba e la ricerca di Sé. Prendendo in considerazione gli scambi intertestuali, intermodali, e interpersonali presenti in questi tre spettacoli, il presente lavoro si concentra sul viaggio dell’ individuo, che attraverso la lettura delle fiabe e assistendo alla performance musicale, viene condotto lungo il processo del divenire. Questo processo, che sta alla base della costruzione di un’identità, porta l’uomo ad avere una maggiore consapevolezza di se stesso, e lo aiuta nell’infinita ricerca di una risposta alla domanda che il Bruco pone ad Alice: “Chi sei tu?”Despite the continuous metamorphosis that the classical fairy tales have undergone throughout the centuries, they have proved able to maintain their distinctive traits, and have successfully survived socio-historical changes, thanks to their ability to renovate themselves and to adapt to new contexts. In particular, during postmodernism, the revision of the classical fairy tale has originated a wide range of works that have subverted its canonical narrative, to create new versions that re-explore its τόποι.
This work explores the dynamics of this metamorphosis from a literary and from a memetic point of view, through an investigation that aims at outlining the role of the fairy tale within the relationship between man’s urge for self-narration and the performance of such urge. Starting from the classical fairy tales, this research takes into account literary works from the Victorian to the contemporary age, and explores the ways in which they represent a revision of their classical counterparts. In particular, the analysis of the Grimms’ collection, Carroll’s Alice books, Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Maguire’s Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West acts as a solid theoretical background for the investigation on the musicals that stem from them; these are Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, Stephen Schwartz’s Wicked, and Frank Wildhorn’s Wonderland. They bring onto the stage three postmodern versions of the classical tales that focus on the liaison between the fairy-tale genre and the exploration of the Self. By taking into account the intertextual, intermodal, and interpersonal exchanges enabled by these three revisions, this work explores the journey of the Self which, by reading fairy tales and being part of a musical performance, is guided along the process of becoming. Such process lies at the basis of identity-construction, and leads to a greater awareness of the Self, in our everlasting search for an answer to the Caterpillar’s question: “Who are you?
Motionless Bodies: Shakespeare's Songs for Sleep and Death
No full textThis essay underlines the original Shakespearean exploration of the unstable boundary of the life/death opposition in plays such as Romeo and Juliet, and Cymbeline. This issue is connected to Shakespeare’s ongoing interest in the analogy between sleep and death which in these plays allows for the postulation of a liminal state.Through the performance of phenomenological death
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